{"id":14242,"date":"2019-10-11T06:36:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T10:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=14242"},"modified":"2019-10-11T06:36:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T10:36:00","slug":"dont-force-patients-off-opioids-abruptly-new-guidelines-say-warning-of-severe-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=14242","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Force Patients Off Opioids Abruptly, New Guidelines Say, Warning Of Severe Risks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Will Stone and Allison Aubrey for NPR)<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no doubt that opioids have been massively overprescribed in U.S. In the haste to address the epidemic, there&#8217;s been pressure on doctors to reduce prescriptions of these drugs \u2014 and in fact prescriptions are declining. But along the way, some chronic pain patients have been forced to rapidly taper or discontinue the drugs altogether.\u00a0 Continue reading article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2019\/10\/10\/768914092\/dont-force-patients-off-opioids-abruptly-new-guidelines-say-warning-of-severe-ri\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3902\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"152\" height=\"55\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png 152w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo-150x55.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 152px) 100vw, 152px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Will Stone and Allison Aubrey for NPR) There&#8217;s no doubt that opioids have been massively overprescribed in U.S. In<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14243,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14242\/revisions\/14243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}